A good one

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2013)

This is pretty historically accurate which I really appreciate since so many movies take way too many liberties with the truth. This movie has soooooo many big time old stars that it is not even funny. All of them do a great job in their roles. The writing is excellent and so is the acting. Some of the roles showed stuff that I later found out was real, such as Henry Fonda as General Roosevelt and the debilitating arthritis he had yet still went ashore. Red Buttons as the paratrooper stuck oh the side of a building while his company of paratroopers were pretty much cut to ribbons by the Krauts. John Wayne as the colonel with the broken ankle who kept on pushing forward however he could. The landings on the beaches that killed so many but went forward anyway. This movie shows the fortitude of the U.S. and Allied troops to get the job done. If these landings had been thrown back who knows how long the war would have gone on. Not to mention what it would have done to Allied moral.